Glay Perform Ace of Diamond Act II Anime’s New Opening Song

The official website for rock band Glay revealed on Tuesday that they will perform the new opening song for the anime of Yūji Terajima‘s Ace of Diamond Act II (Daiya no A Act II) sequel manga. Glay vocalist Teru is composing the song, and guitarist Takuro is providing the lyrics for the song, titled “Ryūsei no Howl” (Meteor’s Howl).

Glay also perform the anime’s first opening song “Sora ga Aozora de Aru Tame ni.”

The anime premiered on April 2. The anime will have nine home video releases. The first volume will have three episodes, volumes 2-8 will each have six episodes, and volume 9 will have seven episodes, for a total of 52 episodes. Crunchyroll is streaming the series as it airs in Japan.

Terajima launched the manga in Kodansha‘s Weekly Shōnen Magazine in 2006. He ended the first part of the manga in January 2015, and Kodansha published 47 volumes for the manga. Terajima then launchedAce of Diamond Act II in August 2015. The fourth and fifth manga volumes bundled anime DVDs in 2016.

The manga won the shōnen category of the 34th Kodansha Manga Awards in 2010. Kodansha Comics began releasing the manga digitally in English in March 2017.